Shauna Hadden of Agawam posted, "We are home!!!" on Facebook on Friday night and confirmed their arrival to The Associated Press.

Hadden said she and her daughter, Ava, went to Brazil in May so the girl could reconnect with her father, Donziete Machado. But after they arrived, Hadden said she was warned Machado planned to keep Ava.

Machado asked Brazilian police in early June to seize their passports because Hadden wouldn't let him visit Ava.

A judge this week decided to return the passports.

Machado's lawyer says he believes his ex-wife and daughter's return to the U.S. is the start of a process that will give him visitation rights.

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzkokhar Tsarnaev rested their case in his federal death penalty trial Tuesday after presenting a brief case aimed at showing his late older brother was the mastermind of the 2013 terror attack.